The Effect of Emergency Medicine Residents on Clinical Efficiency and Staffing Requirements.

Objectives: The effect of emergency medicine (EM) residents on the clinical efficiency of attending physicians is controversial. The authors hypothesized that implementing a new EM residency program would result in an increase in relative value units (RVUs) generated per hour by attending physicians and decrease staffing requirements.

Methods: This was a retrospective observational analysis of an emergency department before, during, and after the establishment of a new EM residency program.